Danville Area Community College - Chronicle Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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cjiiFncaiiM CM (FBI MULi Qicimn mm OFFDE DJC FOmiMlIM m nm WHncrr mima DANVILLE JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION FUND DRIVE CAMPAIGN In March the newly organized Danville Junior College Foundation in- itiated a Fund Drive to raise $750,000 to convert V. A. Hospital buildings into classrooms for the Danville Junior College. By the first of June the Fund Drive had topped this mark by $150,000. Three men who carried much re- sponsibility in the Fund Drive—Mr. Elmer Smith, president of Second National Bank; Mr. Charles Davis, general chairman of the Fund Drive; and Mr. Leonard Jaffe, president of Danville Junior College Foundation— smile over the Fund Drive ' s success, standing beside the building directory In Building 7,

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FIRST CITIZEN AWARD TO DR. OTTO SCHAEFER Dr. Otto Schaefer, director of the Veterans Administration Hospital, was awarded Danville ' s First Citizen Award by the American Business Club of Danville in grateful acknowledgement for his efforts toward making the V.A. Hospital available for Danville Junior College. Students, faculty, and adminis- tration of D.J.C. add their voices in tribute to Dr. Schaefer. Here Dr. Schaefer is shown receiving the First Citizen Award from Jack Stewart, president of the American Business Club. Superintendent David H. Radcliffe, speaker for the presentation, is shown at the right.

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FUND DRIVE CHAIRMEN FUND DRIVE TOPS GOAL: With the scoreboard in the background, Danville Junior College Fund Drive chairmen, Thomas W. Stifler III and Mrs. William Engdahl discuss going over the goal with Thomas W. Conron, a vice chairman in the Pattern Gifts section.